Pope Francis describes ‘ideological Christians’ as a ‘serious illness’ within the Church

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138. OK I get what happened in Argentina. So why do you think he changed his position?

Have you ever been someone who had to learn acceptance of gays? You know a lot about it from your own perspective, but do you understand what happens to someone who learns tolerance and changes their mind about what gays are really about?

It doesn't happen neatly and everyone has stupid stuff they learned growing up and a lot of people learned a lot of stupid stuff about gays and blacks and women ... the list goes on and on.

Did you ever see something you did in a full blown newspaper and get tons of letters about it and possibly heart wrenching stories because what you did or said HURT people? Probably not at that level. But I'm sure if you are a human and not a bot that you've made a mistake, been called on it and decided to do things differently.

ANY possibility that this Pope actually got his prejudice thrown in his face and he didn't like what it looked like?

ANY possibility that this Pope sees what harm has come to the Church when HATRED is allowed to come FROM the Church?

ANY possibility that actually being the leader of the Church makes him see things differently than when he was a little crusader trying to make a name for himself.

DO you know how many Catholics have LEFT the Church due to THIS ISSUE of intolerance? Don't you think he'd be kind of stupid NOT to find a different approach, even if it's purely political?

Besides now he's said it and he kinda has to live up to it. Damage done. We win.